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Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilson and Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser donned asbestos gloves and protective goggles. Then, before 600 guests who had been flown to New Orleans from all over...
...event, they stepped up to a giant, red-hot ladle, tugged at the 20-foot handle and poured a mold full of aluminum-the first produced in what will be the biggest U.S. aluminum plant. When Kaiser's plant is completed in mid-1953, it will turn out 200,000 tons of aluminum annually, more than the entire U.S. industry produced...
...latest list of collectors' items from the rare book department of Charles Scribner's Sons in Manhattan included a copy of the declaration which launched the Franco-Prussian War, signed by Kaiser Wilhelm, and priced at $2,750. It was a gift from Rudolph Hess to his good friend Adolf Hitler and inscribed in gold: "To the Führer, Christmas, 1938, in which year he twice overran borders in order to bring back German territory into the Reich." Among half a dozen other books from the Führer's personal library: autographed first editions...
Before Christmas, Sears retail stores will start selling the Allstate, a new car made for it by Kaiser-Frazer. The car will look like K-F's four-cylinder Henry J, differing only in trim and other incidentals. Sears did not set a retail price but it now sells for $1,362 f.o.b. Detroit. Sears will sell it in 17 cities in the South and Southwest...
...deal was not the first between Kaiser and Sears. Three years ago a Kaiser subsidiary, now Kaiser Metal Products, began making bathtubs and other enamelware for Sears, after Sears had bought a substantial part of the company's stock. With the Allstate, Sears expects to boost sales of its other Allstate products: tires, batteries, spark plugs, now made for it by about 500 different companies...